The Moral Panics of Sexuality

"With the blended ink of scholarly brilliance, activist wisdom, and biting humor, the writers in this volume accomplish a remarkable doubled analytic: they carry their critical lens under the covers of the moral panics of sexuality, targeting the erectile dysfunction of the Right wing and the conservative agenda more broadly, daring to theorize strategic diversionary motives and trace the multiple ideological tremors the morning after. At the same time, however, they refuse to neglect and attend intimately to the embodied crises of and sustained violence against women, queer, of color, marginalized, and figured/disfigured bodies, tossed to the political side of the road like a used condom." - Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies and Urban Education, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA "The various scholarly contributions in this collection are written in a succinct, clear and accessible style which is suitable for newcomers to the subject. The outcome is a major accomplishment, making this book indispensable as both a learning and a teaching resource." - Matthew Hall, Feminism & Psychology

Ayanne Agane, Strategic Book Group, USA Rachael Byrne, San Francisco State University, USA Mary L. Dudy, Arizona State University, USA Breanne Fahs, Arizona State University, USA Michelle A.Gohr, University of Arizona, USA L. E. Hunter, University of Michigan, USA Bianca Jarvis, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Sara McClelland, University of Michigan, USA Michael McNamara, San Francisco State University, USA Jordan O'Connell, Odessa College, USA Sarah Flett Prior, Arizona State University, USA Sarah Stage, Arizona State University, USA Ellen Stockstill, Georgia State University, USA Deborah Tolman, The City University of New York, USA Brooke Willock, freelance writer, USA.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; Breanne Fahs, Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage PART I: FEMALE DESIRE 1. Do I Have Something in my Teeth? Vagina Dentata and its Manifestations Within Popular Culture; Michelle Ashley Gohr 2. Vampires, Border Crossing, and Panic in Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'; Ellen Stockstill PART II: CREATING NORMS 3. Bodies That Are Always Out of Line: A Closer Look at 'Age Appropriate Sexuality'; Sara I. McClelland and L. E. Hunter 4. Raising Bloody Hell: Inciting Menstrual Panics Through Campus and Community Activism; Breanne Fahs 5. Scary Sex: The Moral Discourse of Glee; Sarah Flett Prior PART III: COLONIAL EROTICS 6. Eating it Out: Human Consumption and Sexual Deviance in Nineteenth Century Travel Writing; Ayaan Agane 7. Cyber Pinkwashing: Gay Rights Under Occupation; Rachael Byrne PART IV: TACTICAL PANICS 8. What 'Good' Girls Do: Katharine Bement Davis and the Moral Panic of the first U.S. Sexual Survey; Sarah Stage 9. Gay Republican in the American Culture War: Wisconsin Congressman Steve Gunderson, 1989-1996; Jordan O'Connell PART V: CRITICAL PANICS 10. Time to Panic! Disability Justice, Sex Surrogacy, and Sexual Freedom; Brooke Willock 11. No to the Flow: Rejecting Feminine Norms and the Reproductive Imperative Through Hormonal Menstrual Suppression; Bianca Jarvis 12. Cumming to Terms: Bareback Pornography, Homonormativity, and Queer Survival in the Time of HIV/AIDS; Michael McNamara Afterword: Insisting on 'both/and': Artifacts of Excavating the Moral Panics of Sexuality; Deborah Tolman Endnotes Index